It's things like this that brighten my day to see when I get into work. :D

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Lifehacker recently made a poll on the top 5 best personal web hosting services; and I was fairly upset by the results. In the end it looks like the people who commented on the original post used to pick the options, decided on the cheapest services. At the start of the article the author states that two of the big reasons for choosing an external host is for privacy and control. This makes perfect sense to me, but I would also like to throw a third guideline out there, speed. Sites like Posterous and Tumblr can have a pretty high latency during certain hours of the day, since you are sharing the host with numerous other people.

If you are looking to get the speed, control and security that other blog hosting services do not offer, I would recommend a VPS or Virtual Private Server. With this comes guaranteed memory and CPU cycles, as well as full root access. You can't ask for much more. With root access you can leave your server wide open for hackers or lock it down until nothing is running but apache on port 80; I wouldn't recommend this because, if apache needs to be restarted you will need to ssh into the host to restart the service. :D Control also goes hand in hand with root access, allowing you to change anything you want on the host. A lot of VPS providers now also allow you to swap OSs on the fly. For example I use Media Temple and I bought my new (ve) server with Debian installed as the operating system; it took approximately 10 minutes through their web portal to load up a fresh copy Ubuntu 9.10. Very, very, cool I thought. Finally, you can optimize apache to work the way you want it to, enabling and disabling modules and or settings allowing you to shed precious milliseconds off your load times.

Now that I have told you about the benefits of VPS over shared hosting I thought I would describe some of the negatives.  For one they are usually more expensive; this is due to the fact that they are guaranteeing you processing power and memory. When you are one a shared host and you are not using any memory or processing power it gets distributed to the rest of the users. Another disadvantage is that you need to have some sort of Linux experience, since almost everything is done at the command line. In fact, after I locked down my system there is only one user enabled that can ssh into my host. So that means no FTP, web portal, etc, just command line. In conclusion, if you want true control, speed and security for your blog, website, or web application pick up a VPS over a shared host. Below, are my favorite hosts and why I chose them.

• Virtuozzo VMs with burstable RAM
• Great Control Panel
• On-the-fly OS change
• iPhone support to restart servers
• Massive Memory/Storage options for large applications
• New (ve) servers kick ass (what I currently use)

Linode

• Xen VMs
• Smaller hosting options for < 1$ day
• Lots of options in control panel
• Lots of Operating System options

Dreamhost

I've never used dreamhost's private server so I can't really comment on it, but I have used their shared hosting and it was as good as it gets for a shared service. So if you are looking for another cheap alternative to Media Temple or Linode, then I would recommend checking them out.

If you would like to read and or vote in the poll at lifehacker here is the link:

http://lifehacker.com/5545568/five-best-personal-web-hosts

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New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.

Steve Jobs
April, 2010

Steve Jobs on Flash not being supported by its iTouch, iPhone, and iPad devices.

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This info-graphic further validates why i deleted my Facebook account; the majority of people on it are well over my age group.  I did laugh a little bit when i saw how big of a percentage Myspace had in the 0-17 range.

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This is the final mastered version of the new Swedish House Mafia Track; they said they were waiting on the release so long because they were looking to put some vocals over top.  I am not going to lie I think vocals would have most likely ruined the track.

Swedish House Mafia - One (Original Mix) by esotericmusic

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My new favorite song :D hahaha

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I posted this earlier under the name Swedish House Mafia - Gangsta as thats what the word on the street was.  Well its official the name is One and heres an Interview with Axwell.

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This comes from the March 2010 WMC Podcast

The House Moguls Present "The Show" Podcast Vol. 12 WMC Edition by thehousemoguls

Track List:

• Funkagenda Feat. Ed "After Club"
• MAW "Work" Acapella
• Tomcraft "Loneliness 2010" Lissat & Voltaxx Remix
• Morillo, Romero & Nunez Feat. Jessica Eve "Dancin" Antonie Clamaran
• Maboo Inc & Todd Terry "Somethings Going On" Jose Nunez Remix
• Prok & Fitch VS My Digital Enemy Feat. Maboo Inc "Umbeki" Matteo Di Marr
• Mike Snow "Silvia" Sebastian Ingrosso & Dirty South Remix
• Prok & Fitch "Walk With Me" Axwell VS Daddys Groove Remix
• Crookers Feat. Rosin Murphy "Royal T" The House Moguls Remix
• Dirty South & Mark Knight "Stopover"
• Ellie Goulding Starry Eyed - AN 21 & Max Vengelli
• David Guetta "One Love" Avicci Remix
• RC Groove Project "The Sermon"
• Leventina "Gravity"
• Sedar Ors, & Eser C "Groovy Moments"

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Rapper Guru Died April 19th.  Even though I have not listened to Rap music in years; Guru was an artist that I respected and enjoyed throughout my younger years.  RIP...

“I, Guru, am writing this letter to my fans, friends and loved ones around the world. I have had a long battle with cancer and have succumbed to the disease. I have suffered with this illness for over a year. I have exhausted all medical options. I have a non-profit organization called Each One Counts dedicated to carrying on my charitable work on behalf of abused and disadvantaged children from around the world and also to educate and research a cure for this terrible disease that took my life. I write this with tears in my eyes, not of sorrow but of joy for what a wonderful life I have enjoyed and how many great people I have had the pleasure of meeting,” read the official Guru statement.

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I was asked to make a portfolio site for a friend of mine, he didn't anything flashy or complicated just a couple of divisions of photos and an about page.  After one or two initial designs in Photoshop i got to researching third party photo gallery JavaScript plugins for jQuery, as jQuery is my JavaScript framework of choice.  So I initially tied Galleria which nice and simple but I didn't want thumbnails and after going through the code I didn't really feel like sifting through the code to remove the thumbnails since there was no option to hide them.  My second try was Cycle which i thought was perfect but fell short because of some display issues with CSS.  When I tried to center the gallery I had issues keeping some of the images centered after the transitions.

So after I went through these plugins and more I decided it would just be way easier to write my own photo slideshow application rather than edit a pre-exisiting one to the specifications i needed.  So I thought I would share with everyone how to create a simple photo slideshow using jQuery.  So the first thing to do is to setup our html.

http://gist.github.com/371997

What I am doing here is just defining a bunch of images, and adding the comment or summary of the image in the title attribute of the image which we will need to grab later.  As you can notice I have also assigned the images a bunch of classes; first and last obviously mark the first and last image of the set.  The hidden class is just a simple class I defined so i can easily hide elements.  Finally the last div is empty so we can insert the comments into; I put the &nbsp; there for a place holder so the div doesn't grow when the comment is added.  So this part isn't necessary its just for aesthetic purposes.
Now on to the javascript.

http://gist.github.com/372000.js?file=gistfile1

The first block of code grabs the initial image and associated comment and fades them in.  And the next two blocks of code control the flow of of the application.  Whenever you click next or prev the current image is faded out.  On completion we look to grab the next image in line.  If we are moving forward then we use jQuery's next function to grab the image.  If we are already at the last image we instead grab the first image; the same thing applies to the way previous works.  After the we have the next image we want to display we fade it in.  After our image is displayed we load the comment into the comment div and fade it in.
You should now have a working slideshow.  You might have noticed that when you hover over next and prev the cursor does not change.  Which makes perfect sense as the div's are not wrapped within an anchor tag.  To rectify this issue simply add following css.

So that about wraps it up.  You can view a sample of this here http://pat.codedropbox.com/ which is a sample design I made for a friend.  If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please drop a line in the comments.

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Was browsing reddit.com the other day and came across this gem, give it a listen.

Electro House April Promo Mix by Conduit

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Found this little gem while browsing around YouTube.  It had a little different feel to it than I was used to hearing so I thought i would share with everyone; It also has some pretty awesome breakdowns, enjoy...

Sgt Slick - Right in the Night (Vandalism Remix) by esotericmusic

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Joker Guest Mix on BBC 1Xtra Mistajam by esotericmusic

I also thought I should throw in this link of an Interview that KMAG did with Joker; at the bottom is Joker - Tron and a remix.  Enjoy...

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This is the new Swedish House Mafia track that was dropped at Ultra Music Festival this year; I don't think it has been officially released so the name may or may not be the same.  Whatever, who really cares what the tracks name is, because the song itself is fire.  Can't wait to buy the release on Beatport.  Peep it...

Swedish House Mafia - Gangsta by lavingello

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My friend Evan sent me this track a while back; the beat is so grimey, I love it.  The scary part is that I really don't enjoy a lot of dubstep songs.  This track won this years award for best Dubstep / DnB / Jungle track at the 2010 IDMAwards.  La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream Remix).

La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream Remix) by Illeskimo

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Benny Benassi laid down a pretty dirty set, kicking it off with a Jimi Hendrix mix... LOVE IT...

Benny Benassi - Ultra Music festival Miami WMC 2010.03.27 by user1320930

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Here's a set by one of the greats... Carl Cox. The Sound quality isn't stellar but the mix itself is filthy I would have been one sweaty, dance machine if I was there.

Carl Cox - Ultra Music festival Miami WMC 2010.03.27 by user811359

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